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SAP has agreed to buy Business Objects for about €4.8 billion ($6.78 billion), a surprise move that breaks with SAP’s traditional strategy of avoiding large company acquisitions. The deal, announced ...

In a move to jump-start growth in the business intelligence (BI) arena, SAP AG will acquire Business Objects SA for about $6.78 billion. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor announced Sunday ...

SAP and Business Objects yesterday announced the first joint products from their merger, although plans to tightly integrate the product lines of the two firms will take longer to achieve. SAP AG in ...

SAP's acquisition of Business Objects makes some business sense, and it could also bring business intelligence tools down to the regular office worker, analysts say. Earlier this week, German ...